IC 180
IC 180
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 180 as it looked roughly 229 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 776Spiral210,000 ly
apartIC 1764Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 190Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartNGC 765Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 722Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 188Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1764Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 190Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartNGC 765Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 722Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 188Spiral13 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).